Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-07-23
PERISHABLE BODIES.
WHAT TO PUT ON THEM IN THE
CITY OR BY THE SEA.

! How Clothes "Cut Up" Away from
| demonstrations in Bathing Dresses.
Bathing the Scalp-sIaking the Most
of Your Points of Beauty.
| Especial Correspondence
| New YORK, July Is
Clothes have a queer habit of looking
meaner away from home than at home,
though never could tell why. Have you
not often packed up your buds with no
| little satisfaction, thinking they would look
| quite fine when you reached your goal and
| then found yourself quite dismayed when you
| did get there by having them take a second
| class look! They never appear SO well as at
| home Many a time has my wardrobe which
| looked quite brave at home, behaved so badly
away that it shook my confidence. Yet the
very same clothes, when / got them home
again, looked as good ever. Now it was
not because they were more diminished by
contrast away from home. Often the con-
trary. 1t was pure perversity, coupled with
the hard conditions of trunk life.
1t is the same with hands, finger nails,
c.-nplexons and hair They all turn Oh one
away from home. 1t may be that our gar
ments, our complications, finger nails and
cher things only share popularity common
ourselves when they misbehavc away from
home. have theory that really nice peo-
pie arc lovelier at home than elsewhere.
was at Cape May a few days last week
could not but observe the almost universal
tendency among ladies to brush the hair di-
rectly off the forehead in front, a la Mrs
Cleveland. A most convenient fashion for
the seaside, surely, since salt water is the NOR
tai enemy of frizzes and curs which are pro-
duced by artificial means Who that keeps
neck and neck with the times would believe
j! but there are women still wearing
water waves. Many inventions are said to
be of satanic origin, though without certain
ty; but the wicked paternity of the water
wave cannot for q moment be doubted. !
Lave theory all my own that when the arch
enemy of mankind gets particularly out of
patience with women he takes lis revenge by
lnventing some atrociously hileous fashion
end watching the unsuspecting adopt it and
look ridiculous in it.
Evening headwear at the seaside is easy
and becoming. Black OF white lace fichus
and knitted toboggan caps are numerous.
They save the hats and bonnets, and are
much more appropriate and becoming. Sea
air and millinery never can agree As for
ostrich plulnes and tips, they have no bust
Hess near the ocean. Neither have thin, linn
white dresses, or thin dresses of any color
The limp, light ones make their wearers look
a stylish, serviceable and becoming seaside
morning gown. l see many of them in use
ct the resorts, and they always look fresh and
pretty. Turkey red gowns are also some
what III favor. In city they would infuri-
ate their wearers; but on balcony by the
sea they are deliciously i'll place and quite
becoming, i'll spite of their extreme yiyidness
But occasionally some fair woman with more
spending money than taste dabs white lace
over her fiery gown, and the result is ruinous.
Put lace on it if you want to, but mass it
don't spread it around on the edges of the
dress, dividing yourself up into sections like
bakers pan of gingerbread.
will tell you something about sea bath
ing that you may not know. Do nou fear TO
let the salt water soak your scaln Yo, lave
been told all your life that it is bad for the
hair. Well, l say it is not. Salt, particular
ly sea salt, is splendid tonic for the scalp
and is the important ingredient in some of
the very popular hair reviewers and restora-
tives-preparations that promise a new crop
of hair to bald heads. OF course, if you SIM
ply let your hair and not your scalp get wet
your hair will not be benefited. 1t NAV even
be made harsh. But where you can afford
the Inconvenience of wetting your scalp
every time you take a salt water bath your
hair will be invigorated as well rs your BODY.
Hair has its rights as well as any other part
of your body. Oil cloth and rubber cans are
worn during the sea bath to protect the hair
from the inconvenience of getting wet. and
from undue Accommodations of saui but not
because the water is runous to the hair as
many suppose bright silk handkerchief
or square of red Sateen or turkey red calico |
wound about the head in gypsy turban an.
swers every purpose and adds picturesuueness |
to figure i'll the water.
Do not wear eytra ooD5 sboac 70 A. 49,
shore. The sand will grind the polish off |
them, and the salt water and salt air will |
crack, rust and stiffen them You need to |
wear stockings when you battle in the sea, of |
course. If you can't get the rubber soled |
ones made specially for this purpose-and |
they are eXpensive-you will find that Won |
can be just as happy and look just as well in |
twenty cent pair of black cotton ones |
Some OF the inexperienced are troubled about |
fastening them ON so securely that accidents |
need not be apprehended. 1t is easy enough |
An extra pair of stocking suspenders taken |
to the bath house and put on will keep them |
IN their place and keep their wearer's mind at |
ease. Short sleeved bathing dresses are |
pretty when the bather has plump. white
arms, but they conduce to blstered flesh when
the sun is fervent. Stout ladies cling to cor
sets straight through tie bath, and are the
GAMERS i'll looks thereby.
give IL as my opinion, after considerable
observation, that trimmed bathing dresses
are not SO pretty as plain Ones What is the
GOOD OF streaking ones self over and around
with white or red tape: 1t gives one a gotten
up" appearance. No, read the history of
your country or some other equally beneficial
work during the time you would otherwise
devote to horrifying your bathing dress, and
you will never regret it.
The sash never was in such high feather.
Livery bit OF femininity, from the baby to
the grandmother, is adorned with a sash
where evening costume is donned, and often
in the blaze of day. The shops have immense
quantities of sash ribbons of every hue and
color. No; l will retract. III you want to
match particular shade you can't do it, for
your l'fe's sake, though you wade through a
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